The current baseball series season began in 2017 and the related actions will not be stopped until the game´s last out play which is the number 27 and a winner.
The current baseball series season began in 2017 and the related actions will not be stopped until the game´s last out play which is the number 27 and a winner.
The play ball order is already history since the afternoon on that Wednesday at the Victoria de Girón Stadium where Matanzas team began a series of seven paly-off game before the local and courageous Granma team.
The game of the team that is directed by Victor Mesa before the one which is coached by the experienced coach Carlos Martí would be the first one played by both teams during the this post-baseball season.
The Matanzas team, which set a record of 70-20 of the 90 games, also won 8-4 its related series against Granma and it starts this stage considered as the favorite team which is different to the hard-fought baseball series to be played by Ciego de Ávila team and Villa Clara one.
Analyzing both baseball squads carefully, I think that would help us to have a much better understanding about baseball before the first pitching of this seven-game series.
Catcher: Frank Camilo Morejón or the one named Ariel Martínez
Advantage: the local Granma team, locally known as the Alazanes one
The reason: It is due to his great experience at the time of playing the game. It would be easier to Frank Camilo to face the stress than playing the play off. Areal Martínez is a talented one, but he continues being an offensive catcher from every single year and this is because of the training of a catcher takes time.
First Base Player: Guillermo Avilés or the one named William Saavedra
Advantage: Matanzas baseball team
The reason: He has achieved 16 homers and 42 earned runs, and there are some of them to be defined on the boards in the post-baseball season which makes Saavedra not to have a rival.
Second base player: Carlos Benítez or the ones named Aníbal Medina and Juan Carlos Torriente
Advantage: Matanzas baseball team
The reason: Local coach Víctor Mesa should use one of them: Torriente or Medina. However, local coach Martí has one option left only: Benítez who is a player of a limited defensive performance and a great use of his bat, but he has also slow legs to run.
Third base Player: Yunior Paumier or the one named Jefferson Delgado
Advantage: Granma baseball team
The reason: In spite of Jefferson´s performance, I keep thinking that he is not a 400-average hitter. The play off might be a clear or hostile environment for him, that is why, I prefer Paumier who is a player who is good as a hitter and as a defensive one.
Short stop player: Yordan Manduley or Yurisbel Gracial
Advantage: Granma baseball team (Alazanes)
The reason: Manduley is not a player with a a great leading performance, but he has always used his bat and globe properly. Gracial will have to use his batting skill during the rest of the post-baseball season so that he could convince his tireless and critics followers.
Left-outfielder player: Dens Laza or Ariel Sánxhez
Advantage: local Granma baseball team (Alazanes)
The reason: Dens Laza had a 27-0 baseball performance last year with Pinar del Río team in the post-baseball season; however, his patient as a hitter has increased and he is seeing the pitching performance much better than before by having a much better batting performance. He has a WOBA of. 480. Arieal Sánchez is a proven hitter and he has not a strong arm in the field.
Central infielder Player: Roel Santos or Victor Victor Mesa´
Advantage: the local Matanzas baseball team
The reason: the player named Victor Victor not only stole 40 bases but also could hit 27 homers and scored 55 runs in 70 games and he batted for a double play only.
Advantage: the local Matanzas team, locally known as the Cocodrilos one
The reason: Yoelkis Céspedez will have his first experience this regular season. He batted .195 and was stuck out six times in 12 games. The player stavier could not surpass his performance on the second base with (.213-.280/.277). He has the experience about having won a championshio for the local Industriales team at the 49th National Baseball Series.
Designated hitter: Alfredo Despaigne or Yordanis Samón
Advantage: the Granma team (Alazanes)
The reason: Samón won the record of scored runs with 85 doubles, 27 hits and 76 RBIs and he had the second best baseball average with .387; however, Despaigne is the best of them given it is really difficult to pitch a ball to him.
Starting pitchers
Advantage: Matanzas team (Cocodrilos)
The reason: I cannot say anything different. The three local baseball players, Yonder Martínez, Yoanis Year and Frank Monthiet, counting his games won, added 29 victories in the regular season. They achieved a 3-2.4.88 record of effectiveness against
Granma team which was much better than the pitching performance shown by Granma team against Matanzas one. The final result was 4-8 and an increased effectiveness of 6.42. with 45 walks in 95 innings.
Relief pitchers:
Advantage: Granma team
The reason: I think there is not another local bullpen with the worst numbers like this one: seven out of eight reflief pitchers of the Matanzas team have a pitching performance of 4.00 runs by game and pitcher Alexander Rodríguez with 1.69 of effectiveness lowered his own lack of pitching control.
Manager
Advantages: Matanzas team
The reason: Matanzas team won 70 games of 90.8 out of 12 ones against Granma team with scored runs by 54 and 22. Both Víctor Mesa and Carlos Martí are really experienced baseball coachers and have a great capacity for guiding a team even when any of them has won a national basecall title, but they do not play at present. So the Matanzas team has all what it needed to excel in this competition´s semi final stage.
Source: Radio Rebelde